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Topic: The Face of Master Chief? (Read 26475 times)

I mean... I doubt it, but I thought it would be interesting to bring it up.

Cortana now has both a voice and a facial actor, MacKenzie Mason. In today's Halo Bulletin, it was revealed that Chief is also acted by two people... Steve Downes (of course) and Bruce Thomas for mocap.

What the MC looks like is really uninteresting to me. They've done a good job characterizing him other ways. Keeping him faceless is just part of his aura and convention, now--and I dOnt ever see a reason to show his face. If 343i deigns to let the Chief retire, any development would prolly be in the books anyhow.

I have been thinking about if 343i would kill off the Chief or not. I mean, assuming "in the future" that they ever let the universe calm down, the Chief is outmoded, and if they were interested in exploring that it's not something done in a game--that's novel territory. On the other hand, he pretty much went down in a blaze of glory for all intents and purposes at the end of 3 as far as everyone except him and Cortana were concerned. Maybe a more permanent resolution of same is what they have planned.

Or maybe they don't want to kill their star period. When Halsey gives her eulogy to Noble Team, Chief's still beating up Grunts with his MJOLNIR walker.

Unless this trilogy is indeed mainly about an vengeful didact/some other forerunner and the precursors don't have a role to play until a third trilogy (something I truly hope isn't true), then if they would show his face, I'd say at the end of this trilogy. So, theprecursors are defeated or whatever, John shows his face, and the "main" halo story ends. I would like it to end after this trilogy. I remember how I thought it was being milked when they announced Halo 4. I thought "how could they possibly extend the story? This is dumb" but now I see it has the chance to get much more epic before it ends, I just don't want it to last for 6 more (main storyline based) games.

SO uh yeah. Chiefs face at the end of this trilogy. Story ends. Any other games are offshoots and side stories.

To be honest, they probably don't even have a face modeled at all underneath his helmet

Besides, he'd just look like another bald space marine, and you guys (nor I) want to see that; I'd much rather associate him with his armor/helmet.

I always wondered about that, but I imagined that for most characters their armor "is" them as far as a mesh is concerned. Wasn't sure if the members of Noble Team were an exception or not.

I've managed to find the models online for Reach and take them apart in 3dsmax, and there aren't faces/heads underneath the helmets regularly (likely for performance reasons), and the faces only show up in cinematics.

To be honest, they probably don't even have a face modeled at all underneath his helmet

Besides, he'd just look like another bald space marine, and you guys (nor I) want to see that; I'd much rather associate him with his armor/helmet.

I always wondered about that, but I imagined that for most characters their armor "is" them as far as a mesh is concerned. Wasn't sure if the members of Noble Team were an exception or not.

I've managed to find the models online for Reach and take them apart in 3dsmax, and there aren't faces/heads underneath the helmets regularly (likely for performance reasons), and the faces only show up in cinematics.

'k, that's what I thought.

I always loved MC's "face" in Combat Evolved. Sure, it was done for performance reasons even back then (why bother making a new model for one scene where it won't even be seen?) but it feels like an awesome fakeout for all those people who broke the game camera to see in through the Longsword.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mkiRQVkERg&t=38s